1. What personally identifiable information of yours or third party personally       identifiable information that is collected from you through the web site

2. The organization collecting the information

3. How the information is used

4. With whom the information may be shared

5. What choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution       of the information

6. The kind of security procedures that are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under baja.com's control.

7. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact William Abong, Esq. by email at privacy @ baja.com or write:

baja.com/pany, 244 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, 10016. If you do not receive acknowledgment of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should then contact your mom. Please understand this program only covers the English language parts of the site, while our Castellano still sucks.

Information Collection, Use and Sharing

baja.com collects personally identifiable information about individuals like you, when such individuals specifically provide such information on a voluntary basis.

baja.com collects such personal information as email, name, city, state, country, website, interests, and ICQ number. Whenever you submit your personally identifiable information, such as your email, we share this information with doggydog.com who provides targeted offers usually based on your preferences that you checked off at registration. We do this so our content remains free of charge, unbiased, not advertiser driven; *meaning: you won't be bombarded with annoying ad banners or misled by editorial hyperbole. Such personally identifiable information is typically gathered from a contest or sweepstakes registration. The registration process for subscription sites or services and in connection with content submissions, community postings e.g., chat and bulletin boards, suggestions, classifieds, counters, postcards, add-a-link, voting/polling activities and promotional and transactional areas. At such points of collection, the user will be notified of the sharing of personal information for receiving promotional material from third parties. If you do not want to have your information shared or used by doggydog.com, try to find our "Choice/Opt-Out" section. LOL

baja.com offers unique, sometimes co-branded services such as secure web-based, encrypted email as a partner of hush.com at no cost to its users, in exchange for each individual user's qualified permission to receive targeted commercial offers from time to time from certain affiliate programs, who collects such data on behalf of hush.com and/or doggydog.com who manages baja.com's subscriber information. Further, notwithstanding any opt out of promotional information by the user, baja.com reserves the right to contact a subscriber regarding account status, changes to the subscriber agreement and other matters relevant to the underlying service and/or the information collected. However, these service contacts will not be promotional in nature. baja.com reserves the right to perform statistical analyses of user behavior and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of the various areas ofthe site and to inform advertisers of such information as well as the number of users that have been exposed to or clicked on their silly advertising banners.baja.com will provide only aggregated data from these analyses to third parties.Also, users should be aware that baja.com sometimes permits third parties to offer subscription and/or registration-based services through a baja.com site, including sites that are co-branded with the baja.com look and feel. In these cases frame sets are often used to provide content from third parties. Users may always check the "properties" function to determine what site they are on by right clicking on the pages they visit. Consult your browser's help function to learn more. baja.com is not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties andusers should check the applicable privacy policy of such parties when providing personally identifiable information.

Sub Sites

Many pages on the baja.com server are independently operated and maintained by authors-at-large and self-directed content associates. You may easily identify these pages as they are usually published as virtual domains, for example: ensenada.baja.com or cabobob.baja.com or sandlizrd.baja.com et all.

baja.com is neither responsible for nor in any way monitoring the data collection, if any, of these independent sub-sites. We suggest you inquire with the respective sub-site webmaster as to the use, if any, of your personal data, before you post on any respective guest book or otherwise submit your email address.

Public Forums

Additionally, users should be aware that when they register for the chats and also voluntarily disclose personally identifiable information (e.g., user name, e-mail address) on the bulletin boards or in the chat areas of the baja.com sites, that information, alongwith any substantive information disclosed in the user's communication, canbe collected and correlated and used by third parties and may result inunsolicited messages from other posters or third parties. Such activities arebeyond the control of baja.com. For example, the users email, city, state, country, website, interests and ICQ number is posted for other registered users to view. However, you have the choice when you register, whether to allow your email to be viewed by others.

Cookies and Log File Use

Users also should be aware that non-personal information and data is automatically collected through the standard operation of baja.com's internet server log files or through the use of "cookies." "Cookies" are small text files a website can use to recognize repeat users, facilitate the user's ongoing access toand use of the site and allow a site to track usage behavior and compile aggregate data that will allow content improvements and targeted advertising. Cookies are not programs that come onto a user's system and damage files. Generally, cookies work by assigning a unique number to theuser that has no meaning outside the assigning site. Users should be aware that baja.com can not control the use of cookies or the resulting information by advertisers or third parties hosting data for baja.com. If a user does not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows the user to deny or accept the cookie feature;however, users should note that cookies may be necessary to provide the user with certain features (e.g., customized delivery of information) availableon the baja.com site. Like most standard web site servers we use log files. This includes IP addresses, browser type, ISP (internet service provider), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and #of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses, etc. are linked to personally identifiable information for site security purposes.

Tell-A-Friend

If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site, we ask them for the friend's name and email address. baja.com will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the site. baja.com stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email.

Choice/Opt-Out (Correcting and Deactivating)

Upon request, baja.com will allow any user to "opt out" of further promotionalcontacts at any time. Additionally upon request, baja.com will use reasonable efforts to allow users to update/correct personal information previously submitted which the user states is erroneous to the extent such activities willnot compromise privacy or security interests. Also, upon a user's request,baja.com will use commercially reasonable efforts to functionally delete the userand his or her personal information from its database; however, it may be impossible to delete a user's entry without some residual information because of backups and records of deletions.There are two ways to UNSUBSCRIBE from our third party mailing list with tecnosocios.com. Simply reply back to the email, using UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line. Or, click on the link at the bottom of the message. To update, correct or functionally delete your information from baja.com email us at privacy@baja.com.

Notification of Changes

The foregoing policies are effective as of. May 15, 2001 and supersedes our previous privacy statement dated August 8, 1995. baja.com reserves the right to change this policy by notifying users of the existence of a new privacy statement. If we are going to use your personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify you via email. You will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in this different manner. However, if you have opted out of all communication with the site, or deleted/deactivated your account, then you will not be contacted nor will your personal information be used in this new manner. In addition, if we make any material changes in our privacy practices that do not affect user information already stored in our database, we will post a prominent notice on our web site notifying users of the change. In some cases where we post the notice we will also email users, who have opted to receive communications from us, notifying them of the changes in our privacy practices.

Legal Disclaimer

Although we make every effort to preserve your privacy as described above we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our Web site

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